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“The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.”

James A. Baldwin · Future

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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

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